Vapor-stove



(No Model.)

J. M. OALLISON.

VAPOR STOVE.

Patented Oct. 25

UNITED STATES PATENT Grrrca.

JOSEPHUS M. OALLISON, or ooLUMBUs, NEBRASKA.

VAPOR-STOVE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 248,635, dated October25, 1881.

Application filed August 20, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, J OSEPHUS M. GALLIsoN, acitizen of the United States of America, residing atGolumbus, in thecounty ofPlatte and State of Nebraska, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Vapor-Stoves; and I do hereby declare thefollowing to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention,such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains tomake and use the same, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings,and to letters or figures of reference marked thereon, which form apartof this specification.

Figure l is a perspective of a vapor-stove embodying my invention. Fig.2 is a plan of the burners, steam-pipes, and their connections detached;and Fig. 3 is an end elevation of the same with the table in section.

In the drawings, A represents the frame or stand of the stove, providedwith a shelf, B, beneath the top plate, 0, these parts being of theusual construction. The top plate is provided with openings placed abovethe burners, and adapted to receive the grates (J, which are commonlyused to support vessels above the burners, and is also provided withapertures through which pass pipes D and E from reservoirs d and e. Eachof these pipes is supported in any convenient manner by the top plate,and is shaped so as to lead to and beneath the opening in the top plate,and each terminates thereat, the one D in a burner, F, and the other, E,in circular form G about the burner, suitable couplings and elbows beingused in shaping and directing the pipe, as is usualin this class ofinventions. The pipe E is provided with the step E.

The burner F consists of a vaporizingchamher, 7, a lighter or starter,f, jet f and a dome or gas-chamber, f provided with two circular seriesof perforations around its base.

f is the valve-rod of the vaporizing-chamber and jet, and, like theremaining valves shown, is of the usual construction.

The pipe E at the circle G is perforated at or through its innersurface, and is provided with a valve, 9, and it may also be providedwith avalve j ust below the reservoir 0, as is reservoir d with valve(1,

This being the construction of the parts with reference to a singleburner and its hole in the top plate, it will be readilyseen thatitrequires asimple duplication of the parts described and of theirarrangement to provide a stove with two or more burners andcorresponding openings, the whole being supplied by one reservoir, (l,and one reservoir, 6; and it is also readily seen that the reservoirs dand a may be consolidated into one reservoir having two compartments, itbeing understood that each compartment should have separate inlets andoutlets, as with the separate reservoirs.

I have shown, as the preferable form of construction, separatereservoirs, as it permits the use or non-use of reservoir d or e and itspipes, and these, being connected by the coupling h,

may be removed entirelyfrom the stove or furnace in which they are used.

H is a removable oven, adapted to be placed over the burner, and isprovided with an aperture covered with a raised deflecting-plateattached to the bottom of the oven, the purpose of which is obvious fromits location and construction, and the fountains and burners can beused'in ordinary stoves and furnaces, as above stated.

The following is the manner of using myinvention, and its operation: Thereservoir 61 is supplied with oil, which may be either crude petroleum,gasoline, or any of the carbon oils, and reservoir 6 is supplied withwater. The valve d is opened and the burner is lighted at the starterand jet in the usual manner, and the oil is vaporized by the flame fromthe base of the dome striking the step E and by the starter, and thevapor rises into the gas-chamher in the hollow dome f and thence outthrough the perforations in the base of the gaschamber, and thencecurves upwardly, striking and heating the circle G and vaporizing thewater, which is now let into it, and the vaporized water or steam isintermingled with the burning gas and produces a more perfectcombustion, and hence much greater heat.

I am aware that the injection of steam into the flames of combustionisan expedient heretofore known, and do not broadly claim such as of myinvention; but

What I do claim as new, and wish to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination of a burner perforated at its base, and an encirclingsteam-pipe perforated at its inner surface, substantially as shown anddescribed, whereby the encircling pipeis directly heated by the burner,and steam is injected into the flames of the burner.

2. In a vapor-stove, the combination of a burner provided Wit h aperforated dome-shaped gas chamber and an encircling perforatedsteam-pipe, substantially as shown and described.

3. The combination ofa bnrnerprovided with avaporizing-chamber, astarter andjet, a valve, and a perforated gas-chamber with an encirclingperforated steam-pipe, and means for supplying the one with oil and theother with water, substantially as described.

4. In a vapor-stove, the combination, with the burner, of a reinoy'ableencircling perfo- JOSEPHUS M. OALLISON.

Witnesses:

A. H. Ross, HENRY CORDES.

